{"id":51942,"date":"2015-03-11T05:55:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51942"},"modified":"2015-03-11T05:55:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T10:55:30","slug":"political-muzak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51942","title":{"rendered":"Political Muzak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama Administration says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2015\/03\/obama-white-house-banning-ammo-is-a-common-sense-step-we-can-take-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">banning ammunition protects<\/a>\u00a0the right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if their speech-writer is a computerized buzz-word generator.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t make any sense, doesn\u2019t have to, won\u2019t fool anybody and isn\u2019t intended to.\u00a0 It\u2019s just soothing white noise.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been observing this for the past few years &#8211; mostly from Obama, but the Minnesota DFL as adopted it as well:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Say whatever rhetorically fits the narrative<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry about your voter base &#8211; low-information, gullible people, many of them with advanced degrees &#8211; prodding into it too deeply.<\/li>\n<li>Worry even less about the media bothering you with it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s brilliant, really, if sliding into petty dictatorship is what you&#8217;re after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Obama Administration says\u00a0banning ammunition protects\u00a0the right to keep and bear arms. It\u2019s as if their speech-writer is a computerized buzz-word generator.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t make any sense, doesn\u2019t have to, won\u2019t fool anybody and isn\u2019t intended to.\u00a0 It\u2019s just soothing white noise. Joe Doakes I&#8217;ve been observing this for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51943,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51942\/revisions\/51943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}